Grammar is the set of rules enabling participation in a language game.
Evidence
Every language game has a certain grammar, by which I mean the rules that enable a person to participate and thereby to understand that language game. In even the simplest of human situations, there will be many language games, overlaid as it were. Imagine two parents watching their child play a little-league game. The rules that constrain the child from running from first base directly to third are not part of the same system of rules that constrain the father from shouting abuse at the opposing pitcher or that constrain the coach from selling tickets. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 446
Categorization
- DEFINE: Gives ‘grammar’ a precise technical meaning beyond ordinary linguistic usage.
- XREF: Firmly Wittgensteinian; the overlay of multiple language games in one scene recalls the private-language and rule-following considerations. — connects to: Wittgenstein conceives language-games as parts of an activity or form of life. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 793; Literary form mirrors and anticipates platform-shaped attention grammar. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1093; Metaphysical distinctions between substances and universals stem from grammatical syntax. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 732 (+3 more)
Related
- Only dead languages can be studied by analytic, abstracting grammar methods (similarity 0.86)
- Wittgenstein conceives language-games as parts of an activity or form of life. (similarity 0.81)
- Speaking a language means assuming its entire culture and civilization. (similarity 0.79)
- Utterance types function as rule-governed language games (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Literary form mirrors and anticipates platform-shaped attention grammar.
#expands(0.72) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1093 - A constitutional grammar lets nonjudicial actors reason legally about constitutional questions.
#exemplifies(0.60) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 526 - Metaphysical distinctions between substances and universals stem from grammatical syntax.
#expands(0.55) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 732